Polluting our way to oil independence?

Pick your poison

WASHINGTON -- The Bush administration is considering removing environmental requirements for a multitude of gasoline blends as a way to increase supplies of gasoline and fight soaring prices, Commerce Secretary Donald Evans said in an interview.

We know that the ethanol additive is heavily subsidized and probably has a negative net energy balance but the other additives have had a significant positive impact on air quality, such as unleaded¹ gas.

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¹Lead is also polluting the roadsides of america. Lead weights used for balancing car wheels eventually fall off, get crushed, turn to dust, and cause unknown environmental effects.